Qingtian's news was already known to Chen Wen on the day he accepted the title of Marquis of Anyuan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

All along, the defense line of his Zhejiang Ming army in the east has always relied on the Dapan Mountain and Xianju Mountain between Jinhua and Taizhou, taking advantage of the geographical advantage, and using the terrain at key locations to prevent the Qing army from infiltrating and eliminate the threat from the east. After the beginning of the recovery of Chuzhou, due to the existence of Nantian Mountain, in fact, there was a natural barrier between the Ming army and the Qing army in Wenzhou. It's just that this time it was not the Ming army that wanted to rely on this defense, but the Qing army in Taizhou and Wenzhou.

Today, from north to south, Dapan Mountain, Xianju Mountain and Nantian Mountain, these mountains isolate the occupation area of the Ming army in Zhejiang from the Taiwan and Wenqing armies, and the best route to send troops is from the capital city of Chuzhou along the Oujiang River, and the key point of contention between the two sides is the county seat of Qingtian.

The Qing army's assembly in Zhouzhou, Wenzhou, Taizhou and the naval division in Qingtian to intercept the Ming army is the right way of the art of war, because Wenzhou lacks geographical depth, except for Taishun County, the county towns of other counties are all distributed along the coast, as long as the Ming army breaks through the defense line of Qingtian, the next is the capital of Wenzhou. And once the capital city of Wenzhou is not protected, even Taizhou will be under the front of the Ming army.

However, the fighting had been going on intermittently for eight months, the soldiers had begun to take leave in batches, and he did not have much mobile force at his disposal. If Chen Guobao is defeated in Qingtian, then the newly recovered counties may not be able to survive. And now, Chen Guobao's timely withdrawal of the army, although it failed to complete the battle, but it made the Ming army feel at ease that the counties that had been eaten in their mouths were relieved.

As for the follow-up, Chen Guobao said that he would send three small troops to take over the three counties of Longquan, Yunhe, and Jingning in the upper reaches of Huixi and Biaoxi. And Qingyang, which is farther away, is too close to Songxi, Zhenghe and Erxian counties in Fujian, and is already the sphere of influence of the Qing army in Fujian. It is not conducive to defense, the distance is too far and there is no water transportation to go directly, and it is not easy to assist in defense, so for the time being, he has not decided yet, and wants to ask Chen Wen for instructions.

From the eight counties of Jinhua and Jinyun in Chuzhou, the nine counties expanded to 18 counties in Jinhua, Quzhou and Chuzhou, the number doubled, and the land area more than doubled, including the two prefectures of Quzhou and Chuzhou.

Due to the outbreak of Cao Conglong's rebellion, the Ming army in Zhejiang, which was originally relatively abundant in civilian resources, had already had indigestion for a while, at least until the rule of these counties was completely established and a new batch of soldiers was completed, Chen Wen still had no desire to continue to talk for the time being.

Since the Qing army in Qingtian did not pursue it, but chose to seize all the time to renovate and expand the city, add garrisons, and the Qing army in the direction of Jinhua North Line and Quzhou also withdrew to the nest to recuperate, I think there will be no more fighting this year. In this case, it is better to seize the time to expand its own strength.

At present, Chen Wenxiong is located in the southwest of Zhejiang, occupying a large mountainous area of Jinqu Basin and Chuzhou, the grain production of Jinqu Basin, Jinhua and Chuzhou have a variety of mineral deposits and the folk customs are strong, although Quzhou is not as popular as the folk customs, but its geographical location is very important, and the potential energy of the Longyou Merchant Gang is also a lot.

Food, raw materials, soldiers, and goods are all available in this area, but more efforts are needed to stimulate these potential energies.

The autumn tax in the eight counties of Jinhua Prefecture and the five counties in Chuzhou had already begun to be collected, while the three counties including Longquan could not start collecting taxes until Chen Guobao collected them, while Quzhou was the hardest hit area by the war this year. All in all, the exact amount of tax that will be received will not be known until the end of the autumn tax collection in February next year. However, this year's military expansion is somewhat large, and the collection of food has already begun, and at the same time, it is naturally for the sake of next year's war.

In terms of business tax, there will be no increase due to the existence of the tax exemption order for the time being, but there are three additional revenues this year.

At one time, more than one million taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of gold, as well as a large number of jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, were confiscated from Ma Jinbao's private treasury; On one occasion, he confiscated the property of the rebellious gentry in the rebellion, from which less than 100,000 taels of silver and a small amount of gold were copied, as well as not many jewels, calligraphy and paintings; The other time was after the capture of Quzhou, more than 3 million taels of silver and nearly 100,000 taels of gold were obtained from the treasury of the governor's yamen.

These additional incomes are indeed a lot, but now the expenses of the Ming army are even more amazing.

The monthly salary of the Ming army in Zhejiang was one or two and a half yuan plus one stone of grain per soldier, and under the strict military law used to ensure that the soldiers' salaries were not deducted, every soldier could use these to support his parents, wife and children. Maybe you can save some money, but as long as you don't have too many people in your family, you still have a chance to do it.

Under such a salary standard, the Ming army was more inclined to reward for military merits, which was also an important reason why Chen Wen's army was able to fight bravely at the beginning.

But for Chen Wen, there is a way that is not a family and does not know the price of firewood and rice, each soldier is one or two and five yuan a month plus one stone of grain, which means that each soldier has eighteen taels of silver and twelve stones of grain per year, if you add the reward for the New Year's holidays, how can you also need twenty-five taels of silver and eighteen stones of grain in a year.

One soldier is this number, and ten soldiers are ten times that number, and now, the number of veterans and recruits in training in the battalion will soon exceed the number of 20,000 troops, and if you count the salaries of officers at all levels who will increase their salaries for each level and the salaries of civilian officials in various departments, even if the army is not expanded, it will cost nearly one million taels of silver on salaries next year.

Fortunately, now the rewards for military merit are repaid by the land, and the pressure on the silver money has been drastically reduced, but most of the land allocated is tax-free land, and the increase in the summer and autumn taxes will be small or even decreased in the next few years, and it will not be able to match the Ming army, which is growing every day.

In addition, the expansion of the fortress in Anhua Town has begun, and a duplex fort in Hulu Town, Dongyang County is also under construction. As for Quzhou, it will be Chen Wen's next direction of using troops, not only for the strategy of the three bureaus, but also for the purpose of marrying Jiangxi with Li Dingguo, so the matter of building a fortress will not be considered there for the time being.

In this way, in the past few months, even if there are a large number of Qing army prisoners as coolies, Chen Furen, the mad demon of the fortress, will spend seven or eight hundred thousand taels of silver on the cause of "yard bunker".

As for the manufacture of weapons and armor, the expansion of the ships of the naval camp and the auxiliary facilities of the marine and amphibious armies, and many other expenses, it is even more impossible to calculate. Especially when he went on the expedition, Chen Wen no longer wanted to think of the word "ten thousand taels of gold".

In the past, when I played real-time strategy games, it was really cute to have GIs who didn't eat, didn't get sick, didn't have morale problems, and even updated their weapons and equipment automatically, but in fact there was no such thing.

In the occupied areas of the Ming army, factories were covered with factories producing various products, and raw materials from all over the surrounding areas were transported through official roads and rivers, and then processed and then sold back to various places, so as to revitalize industry, supplemented by science and education, and form commercial capital to harvest the surrounding economic zones, so as to realize industrial modernization, commercial export, and grain import......

Once he thought of this, Chen Wen, as a generation of "the shame of the traverser", was ashamed and couldn't wait to find a crack to get into, and there was probably no one like him who had been fighting for two years and was still using the techniques and tactics of the ancients to fight against the barbarians.

But he is not a high-ranking official of the republic, he has a strong political hand, and he is not an encyclopedic industrial demon who can copy the industrial system of hundreds of years by himself in just one or two years. It's just a small business that likes history, and it's not easy to do it today.

However, once connected to business, Chen Wen suddenly realized that an opportunity was in front of him, which could be said to be within reach. (To be continued.) )